May 10, 1865

Christopher Columbus Danley and William Frederick Holtzman began working to resurrect the Arkansas Gazette following the end of the Civil war. They began publishing a Monday–Friday daily. They began publishing a Saturday weekly on May 13. The Gazette, which came to tout itself as the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi, continued publishing until 1991.

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